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By Paul Antonopoulos The United States should release the list of facilities in Syria where chemical weapons are allegedly being stored and allow the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) to inspect these sites, Russian ambassador to the UN Vassily Nebenzia told the UN Security Council on Thursday. “We have a specific proposal for our American colleagues. Could you announce the list of targets, as it is being

Saudi Arabia is selling off Canadian securities in response to Ottawa’s criticism of the arrest of a female activist, the Financial Times reports. Riyadh says it’s ready to take the step despite possible financial losses. According to the newspaper, Saudi Arabia’s overseas asset managers were told to dump Canadian equities, bonds and cash holdings “no matter the cost.” Saudi Arabia is not a major investor in Canada, according to the

On July 11, Greece said it would expel two Russian diplomats and barred the entry of two others. By Arkady Savitsky The formal reason is alleged meddling in an attempt to foment opposition to the “historic” name deal between Athens and Skopje paving the way for Macedonia’s NATO membership. Moscow said it would respond in kind. Nothing like this ever happened before. The relations between the two countries have traditionally been warm.

The US State Department is concerned over the UN members voting as not all of them seem not to be “loyal” to the US. The US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley complained that the US spends on the UN too much and once again threatened to cut foreign aid for countries that oppose the US at the UN, The Washington Examiner magazine reported on April 26. “The American people

It’s Not The Crime, It’s The Cover-Up: When a scandal breaks, the discovery of an attempt to cover up is often regarded as even more reprehensible than the original deeds. The British government is trying to cover-up the lies it made with its false allegations against Russia. The cover-up necessitates new lies some of which we expose below. Yesterday the head of the British chemical weapon laboratory in Porton Down

President of the United States Donald Trump has invited Vladimir Putin to Washington DC, via a telephone converasation, as reported by Putin’s aide Yuri Ushakov. He stressed that the exact date was not discussed, but he hopes that the Americans will not give up their proposal. During a previous telephone conversation, the presidents of the Russian Federation and the US discussed a number of specific problems that Moscow and Washington are facing in

The problem with John Bolton isn’t that he’s an extremist. It’s that he’s mainstream. By Stephen M. Walt March 26, 2018 “Information Clearing House” – The other shoe dropped. On the heels of his cowardly fire-by-tweet dismissal of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Donald Trump has dismissed National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster and replaced him with John Bolton, the hard-line former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Uber-hawk Mike Pompeo is

John Bolton has demonstrated he is a dangerous and reckless neoconservative ideologue who believes diplomacy should be replaced with ultimatum by CJ Werleman John Bolton, former ambassador to the United Nations under the Bush administration, has been appointed by US President Donald Trump as his third national security adviser, replacing HR McMaster. While a great many troubling figures have travelled in and through the doorway of the Oval Office, none